J. David Neelin

neelin@atmos.ucla.edu


Research interests


The research areas below include links
to sample papers in each area.

Ocean-Atmosphere Interaction
· El Niño/Southern oscillation
· Midlatitude ocean-atmosphere interaction
· Ocean-atmosphere interaction in the tropical climatology
· Monsoon theory as a problem in ocean-atmosphere-land interaction
· Thermohaline circulation-atmosphere interaction

Sea-ice-ocean interaction

Land-surface climate interaction

Tropical atmospheric dynamics for tropical climate problems
· Interaction between moist convection and large-scale motions
· Moist teleconnections
· Tropical precipitation change under global warming
· Intraseasonal oscillations
· Stochastic moist convection
· Hurricanes

Hierarchical ocean-atmosphere-land modeling
· Hybrid coupled models
· Quasi-equilibrium Tropical Circulation Models (QTCMs)

Tropical Atmospheric Dynamics:
Tropical precipitation change under global warming


Selected links to abstracts and paper downloads.

Neelin, J. D., C. Chou, and H. Su, 2003: Tropical drought regions in global warming and El Nino teleconnections. Geophys. Res. Lett.,, 30(24) 2275, doi:10.1029/2003GLO018625.

Chou, C. and J. D. Neelin, 2004: Mechanisms of global warming impacts on regional tropical precipitation. J. Climate, 17, 2688-2701.

Chou, C., J. D. Neelin, U. Lohmann and J. Feichter, 2005: Local and remote impacts of aerosol climate forcing on tropical precipitation. J. Climate, 18, 4621-4636.

Neelin, J. D., M. Munnich, H. Su, J. E. Meyerson, and C. Holloway, 2006: Tropical drying trends in global warming models and observations. Proc. Nat. Acd. Sci., in press (to appear 4/06).

Chou, C., J. D. Neelin, J.-Y. Tu, and C.-T. Chen: Regional tropical precipitation change mechanisms in ECHAM4/OPYC3 under global warming. J. Climate, (accepted 12/05).